Religious identification and politicization in the face of discrimination: Support for political Islam and political action among the Turkish and Moroccan second generation in Europe

British Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 628-648

  Fleischmann, Fenella ^a,b,c   Phalet, Karen ^b   Klein, Olivier ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOROCCO; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELIGION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISLAM; LOBBYING; MALE; MOROCCO; POLITICS; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82455217417     PISSN: 01446665     EISSN: 20448309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8309.2011.02072.x     Document Type: Article

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